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Overview of the psychotherapies
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BOOK REVIEWS
operant conditioning and their application to classroom situations; Section II deals with the analysis of instructional tasks and the technology of teaching; Section III provides the skills necessary for evaluation of teaching effectiveness. No prior knowledge of psychology is required. The only thing that is missing is an effective program for the evaluation of this program.
CHESS, STELLA, t~ THOMAS, ALEXANDER. Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, 1974. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, viii + 642 Pp. $15.00. Volume 6 in this series reprints 37 recent articles grouped into 12 major areas. Among the more interesting sections are those dealing with drug abuse, child abuse, and children and the law. It is too bad that, for all practical purposes, no editorial commentary is offered.
USDIN, GENE (Ed.). Overview of the Psychotherapies. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, xx + 204 Pp. $8.50. For the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American College of Psychiatrists, from which this volume derives, a videotape of an evaluation interview was circulated to program participants. Exponents of various types of psychotherapy related to the videotape and then discussed their particular school of therapy. There is an Overview of Psychotherapy by Jerry Frank, and a concluding address by Zubin reviewing four decades of clinical and laboratory research in biometrics. Behavior therapy is represented by Birk and Saslow, but neither contribution offers anything new, specific, or substantive for readers of this Journal. Saslow uses the videotape as a point of departure for an explanation and explication of behavioral assessment and therapy for the nonbehavioral therapist.
KLEIN, DONALD F., & GITTELMAN-KLEIN, RACHEL (Eds.). Progress in Psychiatric Drug Treatment. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, xviii + 1115 Pp. $31.50. Most of the 84 papers reprinted here first appeared in 1971 and 1972, a few earlier, and none later. For those interested in this topic the coverage is comprehensive. Two deficits are the lack of either a subject (especially) or an author index, and the limited nature of the Editor's introductions to the various sections. There are two review papers dealing with clinical depression and drug therapy in general, and the role of antidepressants and neuroleptics specifically. Other interesting sections deal with "promising new leads" in the drug treatment of the affective disorders, schizophrenia and opiate addiction. CYRIL M . FRANKS
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903
BOOK REVIEWS
operant conditioning and their application to classroom situations; Section II deals with the analysis of instructional tasks and the technology of teaching; Section III provides the skills necessary for evaluation of teaching effectiveness. No prior knowledge of psychology is required. The only thing that is missing is an effective program for the evaluation of this program.
CHESS, STELLA, t~ THOMAS, ALEXANDER. Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, 1974. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, viii + 642 Pp. $15.00. Volume 6 in this series reprints 37 recent articles grouped into 12 major areas. Among the more interesting sections are those dealing with drug abuse, child abuse, and children and the law. It is too bad that, for all practical purposes, no editorial commentary is offered.
USDIN, GENE (Ed.). Overview of the Psychotherapies. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, xx + 204 Pp. $8.50. For the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American College of Psychiatrists, from which this volume derives, a videotape of an evaluation interview was circulated to program participants. Exponents of various types of psychotherapy related to the videotape and then discussed their particular school of therapy. There is an Overview of Psychotherapy by Jerry Frank, and a concluding address by Zubin reviewing four decades of clinical and laboratory research in biometrics. Behavior therapy is represented by Birk and Saslow, but neither contribution offers anything new, specific, or substantive for readers of this Journal. Saslow uses the videotape as a point of departure for an explanation and explication of behavioral assessment and therapy for the nonbehavioral therapist.
KLEIN, DONALD F., & GITTELMAN-KLEIN, RACHEL (Eds.). Progress in Psychiatric Drug Treatment. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1975, xviii + 1115 Pp. $31.50. Most of the 84 papers reprinted here first appeared in 1971 and 1972, a few earlier, and none later. For those interested in this topic the coverage is comprehensive. Two deficits are the lack of either a subject (especially) or an author index, and the limited nature of the Editor's introductions to the various sections. There are two review papers dealing with clinical depression and drug therapy in general, and the role of antidepressants and neuroleptics specifically. Other interesting sections deal with "promising new leads" in the drug treatment of the affective disorders, schizophrenia and opiate addiction. CYRIL M . FRANKS
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903